• oneser@lemmy.zip
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    5 个月前

    Man, Spotify were the ones who did it. Like they made the service so significantly better and more convenient than pirating that most of those pirating actually switched.

    Not a fan of the platform anymore since the heavy push for sponsored content, removal of audiobooks and the whole Joe Rogan thing, but still credit where it’s due.

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      5 个月前

      The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 个月前

        And by massively underpaying the actual artists that create the content that fills the platform.